Of the top of my head - and I reckon we should limit it to one per artist...

Adore - Smashing Pumpkins
EVOL - Sonic Youth
You're Living all Over Me - Dinosaur Jr.
Roman Candle - Elliott Smith
Pornography - The Cure
Loveless - My Bloody Valentine
Technique - New Order
Aladin Sane - David Bowie
Interpol - Turn On the Bright Lights (not a huge fan of the band but this album is great)
Polvo - Todays Active Lifestyles (recently got this - love it!)



I have no idea why i started putting my thoughts in to brackets at the end. Sorry for wasting your time. More so if you're reading this.

how can you condensate all the good music in 10 titles?













ok, lemme try (sorting them out randomly):

THE SISTERS OF MERCY - FLOODLAND (1987)
PRONG - RUDE AWAKENING (1996)
SONIC YOUTH - DIRTY (1992)
KILLING JOKE - NIGHT TIME (1985)
MICHAEL JACKSON - DANGEROUS (1991)
QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE - ERA VULGARIS (2007)
SADUS - A VISION OF MISERY (1992)
COCTEAU TWINS - HEAD OVER HEELS (1983)
KING CRIMSON - RED (1974)
AKIRA YAMAOKA - SILENT HILL (1999)

Ministry are left out with a good amount of other bands. Sorry.

i just wrote down like a thousand alblums and then just decided to delete em all and decided to pick one:

Stooges-Fun House

it represents almost all the music i love; punk rock (obviously), noise, free jazz, a little experimental, and of course, ROCK AND ROLL.

just missing hip hop and some of the warp records electronic and brian eno-ish ambient stuff i love.

If there's one thing I've learned in my travels through this crazy little thing called life, it's never trust a man who has a top 10 anything list. Nevertheless, I can't resist coming up with a list of my own.

OK Computer
Sticky Fingers
The Beatles
The Modern Lovers
Metal Box
Trout Mask Replica
Daydream Nation
Their Satanic Majesties' Second Request (BJM)
Nevermind
Mirrored

My top 10 list of all time:

Sonic Youth - Evol
Mogwai - Stanley Kubrick EP
Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas
Biosphere - Substrata
Radiohead - My Iron Lung EP
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Shipping News - Save Everything
Labradford - Mi Media Naranja
Einsturzende Neubauten - Tabula Rasa
Aidan Baker & Thisquietarmy - Orange (hell, I love this one sooo much)

Mine has changed so much since i last posted in this thread, and i can't do 10 i have to do 20. In no order they are -

1 Sonic Youth - Murray Street
2 Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
3 Sonic Youth - Sister
4 Sonic Youth - Washing Machine
5 Sonic Youth - Evol
6 Elliott Smith - From a basement of the hill
7 Elliott Smith - Figure 8
8 Elliott Smith - XO
9 Elliott Smith - Roman Candle
10 Elliott Smith - Elliott Smith
11 Elliott Smith - Either/Or
12 Todd Rundgren - Something/Anything
13 Joni Mitchell - The Hissing of Summer Lawns
14 Sparklehorse - Its a wonderful life
15 Sparklehorse - Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionpilot
16 Sleater-Kinney - The Hot Rock
17 The Beatles - Abbey Road
18 The Flaming Lips - Clouds Taste Metalic
19 Cat Power - What would the community think?
20 Pavement - Slanted & Enchanted

ive randomly grabbed 10 cds from around me so here goes in the order i pick em up....

ex models- other mathematics
ween- god ween statn
mrecury rev- boces
jefrey lweis- the last time i took acid i went insane and other stories
stereolab- aluminium tunes
battles- mirrored
negativland- free!
deerhoof- milk man
captain beefheart- safe as milk
axolotl- archons archons
the plot to blow up the eiffel tower- love in a fascist brothel

Wow. Varied taste going on there.:p

With that list I find it weird that you don't like Radiohead but tastes are not supposed to be logical.

1.Daydream Nation
2. Funhouse-the Stooges
3. Kid A-Radiohead
4. Y-the Pop Group
5. Surfer Rosa-the Pixies
6. Unknown Pleasures-Joy Division
7. Filth-Swans
8. Meat Puppets 2
9. Siamese Dream-Smashing Pumpkins
10. Bad Moon Rising-Sonic Youth

i have a problem with radiohead.

top 10

Daydream Nation - Sonic Youth
Green Mind - Dinosaur Jr
Slanted & Enchanted - Pavement
Celebrate the New Dark Age - Polvo
Fake Train - Unwound
Bubble & Scrape - Sebadoh
Live Rust - Neil Young & Crazy Horse
The Beatles - The Beatles
Cure For Pain - Morphine
Frigid Stars LP - Codeine

today's top ten:

-the fall - live at the witch trials
-converge - jane doe
-boredoms - vision creation newsun
-cat power - moon pix
-peter brötzmann - machine gun
-link wray - rumble
-eyehategod - dopesick
-shellac - terraform
-prodigy - music for the jilted generation
-kevin drumm - sheer hellish miasma

daydream nation/sy
easy instructions for complex machinery/apocalypse hoboken
psychic,powerless and another mans sac/butthole surfers
ball hog or tugboat/mike watt
13 songs/fugazi
exodus/bob marley
all pink floyd
the information/beck
introducing the minutemen/minutemen
doomed from the start/doom

You need to get over that, like I did.

DJ Shadow-Endtroducing
Everything, and I mean everything about this album is mind blowing.
Nirvana-In Utero
Take it I lose indie cred for this inclusion?
Queen-Sheet Heart Attack
Download 'Lap of the gods' and 'Brighton Rock' to see why
Massive Attack-Mezzanine
Some see this album as being depressing. I just see it as being fantastic
Rocky Horror Picture Show Soundtrack
Camper than Graham Norton next to a Christmas Tree, but really, does it matter when it sounds this good?
Sonic Youth-Washing Machine
Don't need to elaborate on this one
Opeth-Deliverence
The title song just oozes brilliance. Next to Pantera they're one of the few metal bands I can sit down and actually enjoy.
Pantera-Vulgar Display Of Power
Made technical guitar cool again.
Radiohead-Kid A
For The Beatles it was "Which is better, The White Album or Sgt. Peppers". For Radiohead it's either Kid A or OK Computer. No matter which way you look at it, this is better.
Brian Eno-Music For Airports
The music, when played, is just there. It doesn;t need to scream in your face to make you realise how great it is.

Natch

These things change by the hour, but here's ten albums (among many others) that mean a helluva lot to me, for all kinds of reasons:

1. Lou Reed - Transformer
2. Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
3. David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust
4. Patti Smith - Horses
5. Laura Nyro - New York Tenderberry
6. John Lennon - Plastic Ono Band
7. Velvets - Third Album
8. Television - Marquee Moon
9. Antony and the Johnsons - I am a Bird Now
10. Richard and Linda Thompson - Shoot Out the Lights

I'm going to make another one even though I'll look back in two days and realise I missed something I really love.

In no order:

Black Sabbath- Masters of Reality
John Coltrane- The Major Works of (Compilation of later works)
Darkthrone- Transilvanian Hunger
Guided By Voices- Bee Thousand
The Misfits- Static Age
The Replacements- Let It Be
Repulsion- Horrified
Alan Vega- 1st LP
Stooges- Funhouse
Wu-tang Clan- Enter the Wu-tang

i love all these, 36 chambers is the best hip hop alblum ever, undisputed, and ranks with loveless ok computer and every other seminal album you wanna throw at me to argue. ive always drawn a connection between rza and people like brian wilson and brian eno, in that they all have a keen ear for sound melody and beats and are capable of making the most beautiful noises from these sounds, just that he comes from a vastly different background. Rza is the urban Aphex Twin! On a side note, Funhouse is also my undisputed favorite, songs about fuckin is in my top 10, damaged def top 20 at least, i also love boris, sleeo, neu, to some extent i like wolf eyes (i think there are way better "noise rock" bands), love neu, love rocket, i like ur list. i didnt even bother makin this list, id feel like im leaving out somethin and that id have to represent the best alblums of all the types of music i love.